Saturday Night at Market Chess Cinemas

The great writer/director Federico Fellini’s masterpiece, Amarcord (1973) is easily a top ten all-time film for me. I can still recall being mesmerized the first time I saw this one. 

As with most classic Italian cinema, the expert blending of tragedy and comedy is unparalleled and, frankly, flawless. The story weaves together several different characters and storylines in 1930’s Fascist Italy, set in a coastal town near Rimini, in the Emilia-Romagna region.

Watch it with subtitles if you don’t speak Italian, rather than dubbed in English.

I did recommend Amarcord several years ago, but I do think it is worth another suggestion given how simultaneously brilliant yet under-watched/under-known it is.